Alabama
Explore the Alabama records currently included in this collection. Coverage is not complete.
State Laws Database: 7 records
NHGRI database archive: 8 records
Status: 4 enacted or approved; 0 proposed or pending
Most common mapped topics: Privacy (8) · Health Insurance Nondiscrimination (4) · Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry) (3)
Records in Alabama
Showing 15 of 15; State Laws Database records appear first.
| Jurisdiction | Law or policy | Topics | Status | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Alabama Genetic Data Privacy ActWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Effective: October 1, 2024Primary source | Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry) | Enacted | Alabama's Genetic Data Privacy Act took effect on October 1, 2024. It regulates businesses that directly solicit biological samples from consumers for genetic-testing products or services, as well as contractors handling data for those businesses. |
| Alabama | Alabama Personal Data Protection ActWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Effective: May 1, 2027Primary source | Consumer Personal Data Privacy | Enacted | Alabama enacted the Personal Data Protection Act in 2026, but its requirements do not take effect until May 1, 2027. The act treats genetic or biometric data processed to uniquely identify a person as sensitive data within a broader consumer privacy framework. |
| Alabama | Biological and neural data in health and fitness appsWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: March 11, 2026Primary source | Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry) | Died | Alabama HB 263 did not become law. It would have regulated health and fitness applications that collect biological or neural data, including information generated by analyzing genetic or other biological properties to identify a person. |
| Alabama | Biological and neural data protectionsWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: March 18, 2025Primary source | Genetic data storage/privacy/sharing (industry) | Died | Alabama HB 436 did not become law. It would have regulated businesses that maintained, owned, or licensed biological or neural data, including data generated by analyzing genetic or other biological properties for identifying a person. |
| Alabama | Genetic privacy and insurance protectionsWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: February 6, 2024Primary source | Privacy, Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Alabama SB 58 did not become law. It would have required express consent for collecting, analyzing, using, retaining, or transferring DNA, declared DNA analysis results to be the individual's exclusive property and confidential, and restricted some insurer uses of genetic information. |
| Alabama | Unlawful use of DNAWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: February 5, 2026Primary source | Privacy | Died | Alabama HB 265 did not become law. It would have created first-, second-, and third-degree offenses for intentionally collecting, retaining, testing, disclosing, selling, or transferring another person's DNA sample or genetic data without express consent in specified circumstances. |
| Alabama | Unlawful use of DNAWho Owns Your DNA?Legislation · Last action: May 6, 2025Primary source | Privacy | Died | Alabama HB 449 did not become law. It would have created first-, second-, and third-degree offenses for intentionally collecting, retaining, testing, disclosing, selling, or transferring another person's DNA sample or genetic data without express consent in specified circumstances. |
| Alabama | 2021 State Bills Alabama 2021 HB 216NHGRI archive2021 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Creates the Alabama Consumer privacy Act. Allows a consumer to request that a business: (1) disclose personal information that it collects; (2) delete certain personal information; (3) disclose the sale of certain personal information to third parties; and (4) allow a consumer to opt out of the sale of personal information. Prohibits a business from retaliating against a consumer for making a request for disclosure or for opting out and from selling the personal information of a consumer under 18 years of age. Personal information is defined to include biometric information such as DNA. Died. |
| Alabama | 2020 State Bills Alabama 2020 HB 266NHGRI archive2020 legislative sessionPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Died | Prohibits health benefit plans, life insurers, and long term care insurers from (1) using an individual's genetic information to deny him or her insurance or to establish differentials in premium rates, or (2) requiring or soliciting genetic information, using genetic test results, or considering an individual's decisions or actions relating to genetic testing in any manner for insurance purposes. Died. |
| Alabama | 2016 State Bills Alabama 2016 HB 267NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits state agencies, local education agencies, or local education institutions from administering any student survey, assessment, analysis, evaluation, or similar instrument that solicits certain information about the student or the family of the student, including biometric records. Biometric records are defined to include a DNA sequence. Died. |
| Alabama | 2016 State Bills Alabama 2016 SB 318NHGRI archive2016 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits state agencies, local education agencies, or local education institutions from administering any student survey, assessment, analysis, evaluation, or similar instrument that solicits certain information about the student or the family of the student, including biometric records. Biometric records are defined to include a DNA sequence. Died. |
| Alabama | 2015 State Bills Alabama 2015 HB 564NHGRI archive2015 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | Prohibits state agencies, district boards of education, or pre K-12 educational institutions from administering any student survey, assessment, analysis, evaluation, or similar instrument that solicits information about the student or the student's family concerning biometric records, which is defined to include DNA sequences. Died. |
| Alabama | 2012 State Bills Alabama 2012 HB 78NHGRI archive2012 legislative sessionPrimary source | Privacy | Died | This bill creates the Genetic Information privacy Act. The bill establishes procedures for obtaining, disclosing and storing genetic information as well as penalties for unlawful disclosure. Measure failed. |
| Alabama | State StatuteAlabama: Code of Ala. 27-5-13NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination, Other Lines of Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | Health and disability insurers may not deny applicants insurance coverage because of a diagnosis of sickle cell anemia. |
| Alabama | State StatuteAlabama: Code of Ala. 27-53-1 et seq.NHGRI archiveDate not stated in source labelPrimary source | Health Insurance Nondiscrimination | Statute | Health benefit plans, including the Alabama Medicaid Agency, may not require a genetic test to determine if a person has a predisposition to cancer as a condition of insurability or use the results of such a test to determine insurability or discriminate with respect to rates or benefits. The statutes set forth penalties for insurance companies or health maintenance organizations that violate the law. |